forsaide tenement by þe seruice of þe forsaide marke yerly for all thynges and all seruices. This our grauntyng and con|firmacion we haue i-made with þe commune counsell of þe Cite, and with þe communall Seele haue i-confermed hit. And þese ben þey þe which þis grauntyng and confermyng haue i-made Nigell that tyme Deene of Oxonforde, John Kepeherme and Henry fiȝt Sigrim þen Aldirman, laurence Kepeherme and thomas of tadmarton, þen pretores or pletoures [Latin is simply 'tunc pretores.'] , petur ffiȝt Geffrey, and other [Latin is 'etc.'] , and all þe commune of þe Citisyns of þe Cite of oxonford.
[71.]
About 1155. Confirma|tion to Oseney, by Henry II, of no. 69.
HENRY, Kyng of Inglonde, Duke of Normandye and of Gien, and Erle of Aungie, to Robert [Robert de Chesney, bp. of Linc. 1148-66.] , Bisshoppe [folio 18b] of lincolu, and to þe Barons of oxonfordeshire and to þe Citisyns of oxon|forde helth. Knowe ȝe me to haue i-grauntid, and to haue i-confermed, to þe church of god and of Seynte Marye of Osney and to þabbot and Couent þere seruyng god, for my helth and of myne, þat ȝifte þe which þe Citisyns of Oxonforde haue i-maade to þe church of Seynte Marye of Osney and to þe chanons þere seruyng god [of] þe Ile ['de insula.'] þe which is i-callid Midleye, so þat Euery ȝere þe forsaide chanons paye dj. a marke of Siluer for þat tenure where þe same Citisyns wille com|maunde, as þe charter of þe forsaide Citisyns witnesseth. Wherefore I will and ['et firmiter precipio'; 'or charge' is an alternative rendering.] Surely commaunde or charge þat þe chanons holde well and In peece, and frely and worschipfully, nowe þe saide Ile ['iamdictam insulam.'] , as Euery [Read 'ever': 'unquam.'] oony man hit best or worschip|fulliste helde. Witnisses Thomas [Thomas Becket, chancellor 1154-62.] owr chaunceler, Richard of Hum, Gocell, of [Joscelyne de Bailol.] Bayll.: at Sausburye.
[XII. Of Walton (in north suburb of Oxford)]
[72.]
Reference to nos. 2. and 21.
HIT is to be membrid that þabbot of Oseney hath in Walton Diuerse londes and tenementes perteynyng to þe Chapell of Seynte George, as hit is i-schewed above in þe title of
